Edwin F. Kalmus

AUFFORDERUNG ZUM TANZE (L'INVITATION A LA VALSE; INVITATION TO THE DANCE), Op. 65/ J. 260, an early example of program music by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), was originally heard in its 1819 versi...

AUFFORDERUNG ZUM TANZE (L'INVITATION A LA VALSE; INVITATION TO THE DANCE), Op. 65/ J. 260, an early example of program music by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), was originally heard in its 1819 versi...

The Cambridge Greek Play produced Aristophane's The Wasps as Trinity College, Cambridge in 1909, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was asked to compose incidental music to accompany the productio...

Written in 1887 by notable leider composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Italian Serenade was originally written for string quartet and named simply Serenade in G Major. In his ongoing attempt to set the wor...

Written in 1887 by notable leider composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Italian Serenade was originally written for string quartet and named simply Serenade in G Major. In his ongoing attempt to set the wor...

Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Pelléas et Mélisande adapted Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name in which Prince Golaud marries a mysterious young woman, Mélisande, but becomes jealous of his hal...

Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Pelléas et Mélisande adapted Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name in which Prince Golaud marries a mysterious young woman, Mélisande, but becomes jealous of his hal...

Lucia di Lammermoor es un drama trágico en tres actos de Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano escribió el libreto en italiano basándose libremente en la novela histórica de Sir Walter Scott de 1819,...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the music to COSI FAN TUTTE (So do they all), his third collaboration with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, only after his contemporaty Antonio Salieri rejected t...

Tosca es una ópera melodramática en tres actos ambientada en Roma en junio de 1800, con el control de Roma por el Reino de Nápoles amenazado por la invasión napoleónica de Italia. Contiene escenas de...

Tosca es una ópera melodramática en tres actos ambientada en Roma en junio de 1800, con el control de Roma por el Reino de Nápoles amenazado por la invasión napoleónica de Italia. Contiene escenas de...

La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character. Piave...

Un ballo in maschera (Un baile de máscaras) es una ópera en tres actos de 1859 de Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) con libreto de Antonio Somma. Basada inicialmente en el libreto de Eugène Scribe para la óp...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1850 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), WWV 63, had two sources of inspiration for Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The first was a short story by Heinrich Heine, based on the folk legend of a sea-c...

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), WWV 63, had two sources of inspiration for Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The first was a short story by Heinrich Heine, based on the folk legend of a sea-c...

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), WWV 63, had two sources of inspiration for Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The first was a short story by Heinrich Heine, based on the folk legend of a sea-c...

Romanian composer, violinist, and conductor George Enescu (1881-1955) (Fr. Georges Enesco) wrote the two Roumanian (Romanian) Rhapsodies, Op. 11, in 1901. Much like Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, both...

Volviendo a la forma sinfónica de 4 movimientos, Alexander Glasunow (1865-1936) completó su SINFONÍA nº 5 en si bemol mayor, Op. 55, en 1895. Estrenó la obra en el Salón de la Nobleza de San Petersbur...

Volviendo a la forma sinfónica de 4 movimientos, Alexander Glasunow (1865-1936) completó su SINFONÍA nº 5 en si bemol mayor, Op. 55, en 1895. Estrenó la obra en el Salón de la Nobleza de San Petersbur...

Terminada originalmente en 1888, la versión original de esta gran obra difería significativamente de la versión revisada y definitiva que se ofrece aquí. Inicialmente en dos partes con cinco movimient...

Terminada originalmente en 1888, la versión original de esta gran obra difería significativamente de la versión revisada y definitiva que se ofrece aquí. Inicialmente en dos partes con cinco movimient...

Terminada originalmente en 1888, la versión original de esta gran obra difería significativamente de la versión revisada y definitiva que se ofrece aquí. Inicialmente en dos partes con cinco movimient...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) compuso su SINFONÍA nº 5 en do sostenido menor en 1901 y 1902, principalmente durante su estancia en su casa de vacaciones en Maiernigg. El compositor dirigió la primera inte...

While less known today, German composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) was a popular and respected composer during his life. Known best for his piano compositions, his most popular work is his Spanish...